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Erin Oprea is owner of Oprea Personal Fitness, an exclusive in-home personal training business for clientele in the Nashville area or who are on the road. She first received her personal trainer certification in 1995. After serving 9 years in the Marine Corps, she resumed her passion in fitness to eventually include clients such as Carrie Underwood and Jennifer Nettles.

I’d like to welcome you to our fitness conversation by starting with one of the most important parts of staying fit, your nutrition. This is an extremely important part of everyone’s life and we have lots of little tips that have coached our clients into a more consistent clean-eating lifestyle.

A quick and healthy way to lean down is to take starches like these out at night:

• Potatoes• Pastas• Corn• Rice• Breads

Starchy carbs are our energy source, eat them early in the day so you can use them as energy and not store them as fat. Eat pasta when you can use it! No starches after lunch but do not cut out carbs. This is a quick tip I use for artists getting ready to head out on tour (keep in mind, I’ve been telling them this for a long time, but right before the Nashville departure, they seem to listen just a bit more intently)!

An important fact to focus on here is that you should not cut out carbohydrates. We need these for our body to function smoothly.

Vegetables are a great source of carbs at night with dinner and can help replace the starch-filled side dishes that you may be accustomed to. Give these a try:

Remember, this is not a low carb diet, this is making wise choices about when to eat your starches. Changing this one small thing now will make a huge difference when that sunny, warm weather comes back!

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